Ebenn is a Research Fellow in Professor Kathryn Holt's group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. His current research involves undertaking high-quality computational genomics-based research to elucidate the genetic determinants of AMR and virulence in Klebsiella pneumonia and contributing to research aimed at improving phenotype prediction from genotypic data to enhance genomic surveillance AMR and virulence in K. pneumoniae.

Ebenn completed his PhD in Professor Mark Pallen's lab at the Quadram Institute Bioscience and Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His PhD thesis focused on the ecology of Escherichia coli in the vertebrate gut.

His previous research experience has included utilising clinical microbiological and molecular techniques to investigate the efficacy of novel and existing vaccines, antimicrobial resistance, and colonisation dynamics of respiratory pathogens. He was also actively involved in the surveillance of invasive bacterial diseases and antimicrobial resistance in the WHO Regional Co- ordinating Centre headed by Professor Martin Antonio at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRCG at LSHTM), serving as the lead from 2012 to 2017.

Read more about his published works are available here: https://bit.ly/3p2slam. Find me on Twitter @EFosterNyarko and on LinkedIn, https://bit.ly/3wRyYPM.

This presentation explores the potential of whole-genome sequencing to unravel transmission patterns and the spread of pathogens, AMR, and virulence traits to

enhance our understanding of the evolution and spread of bacterial pathogens using E. coli as a test case.